I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Oslo and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics at National Chiao Tung University.
I work on phonology and historical linguistics.
My research focuses on explaining the cause of phonological patterns:
Which patterns are due to innate grammatical biases and which are caused by extra-grammatical factors?
How much of phonology can we explain without incorporating the observed patterns directly into Universal Grammar?
E-mail: stausland dot johnsen at iln dot uio dot no
2013 The articulation of Norwegian retroflexes.
Journal of Phonetics 41(1): 56–58. pdf link
2012 A diachronic account of phonological unnaturalness.
Phonology 29(3): 505–531. pdf link
2012 Variation in Norwegian retroflexion.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics 35(2): 197–212. pdf link
Data files: Data Analysis
2012 Syncope of long *ī in Old Norse nouns.
In John Ole Askedal, Tom Schmidt, and Rolf Theil (eds.) Germansk filologi og norske ord.
Oslo: Novus forlag. 33–51. pdf link
2012 From perception to phonology: The emergence of perceptually motivated constraint rankings.
Lingua 122(2): 125–143. pdf link
Data files: Data Analysis Stimuli
2011 The origin of variation in Norwegian retroflexion.
Ph.D. dissertation. Harvard University. pdf link
2011 The phonetics and phonologization of Verner’s law.
In Thomas Krisch and Thomas Lindner (eds.) Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog.
Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. 232–241. pdf link
2010 Neighborhood density in phonological alternations.
BLS 36. In press. pdf
2009 Non-local binding in tenseless clauses.
CLS 45(2): 103–116. pdf link
2009 The development of voiced labiovelars in Germanic.
In Stephanie Jamison, Craig Melchert, and Brent Vine (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.
Bremen: Hempen Verlag. 197–211. pdf link
2007 The development of voiced labiovelars in Germanic.
Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 12: 15–26. pdf link
2005 The historical development of Gothic aba and its n-stem anomalies.
Historische Sprachforschung 118: 251–262. pdf link
2005 The Germanic (i)jō-stem declension. Origin and development.
M.Phil. dissertation. University of Oslo. pdf doc link
2004 Review of R. Nedoma ‘Kleine Grammatik des Altisländischen’.
North-Western Language Evolution 45: 119–123. pdf link
2003 Ljodsamhøvet i AM 315 f fol. [The vowel harmony in AM 315 f fol.].
Arkiv för nordisk filologi 118: 47–75. pdf link
2003 Sanningsdyljing i målvitskapen.
Målmannen 2(2): 2. pdf link
2002 Eit forsvar for norsken.
(with Klaus Johan Myrvoll, Anders Olsen, and Kjetil Aasen)
Syn og segn 108(1): 56–61. pdf link
2001 Ordsoga åt dei heimlege ordi.
Review of H. Bjorvand & F. O. Lindeman ‘Våre arveord. Etymologisk ordbok’.
Vestmannen 17(3): 6, 10, 14. pdf
2001 Meir um j-fenging
Høgnorsknytt 2001(1): 4–6. pdf link
2000 Målreinsking – ein uting?
Høgnorsknytt 2000(4): 7–8. pdf link
2000 J-fenging.
Høgnorsknytt 2000(3): 4–5. pdf link
Talks without links to pdf downloads have been superseded by newer talks or publications.
If you for some reason want the original handout, you can find it here.
Jan 2013 Fagdidaktiske problem med én eller tre karakterer i norskfaget i studieforberedende retning i videregående skole.
Department of Cultural Studies and Languages.
University of Stavanger. pdf
Jan 2013 Grammatiske problem med å beskrive ordklassen adverb og setningsleddet adverbial i norsk.
Department of Cultural Studies and Languages.
University of Stavanger. pdf
Jan 2013 Vowel reduction in Old English.
The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
Boston. pdf
Aug 2012 Long-distance binding of Norwegian reflexives.
3rd Grand Meeting of the Nordic Collaboration on Language Variation Studies (N'CLAV).
Lysebu.
Apr 2012 Rhyme acceptability determined by perceived similarity.
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures.
National Chiao Tung University. pdf
Apr 2012 Vowel weakening in Old West Saxon.
Seminar in Theoretical Linguistics.
University of Oslo.
Apr 2012 Vowel weakening in Old West Saxon.
Phonology Circle.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mar 2012 Vowel weakening in Old West Saxon.
GSAS Workshop in Historical Linguistics.
Harvard University.
Jun 2011 The origin of variation in Norwegian retroflexion.
Department of Linguistics.
Harvard University.
May 2011 Phonological variation from perceptual asymmetry.
Department of Linguistics.
University of Leipzig.
Apr 2011 Rhyme acceptability determined by perceived similarity.
The 29th Weast Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL).
University of Arizona.
Apr 2011 Predicting rhyme with segment confusion.
The 47th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS).
University of Chicago.
Mar 2011 Rhyme acceptability determined by perceived similarity.
Phonology Cirlce.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Feb 2011 A diachronic account of phonological unnaturalness.
The 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS).
University of California, Berkeley.
Jan 2011 No phonetic base in Norwegian retroflexion.
The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
Pittsburgh.
Nov 2010 Phonetic naturalness in Norwegian retroflexion.
Phonology Circle.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Feb 2010 Neighborhood density in phonological alternations.
The 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS).
University of California, Berkeley.
Jan 2010 On the origin of asymmetry in Norwegian retroflexion.
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
Baltimore.
Nov 2009 Contrast maintenance effects in Norwegian retroflexion.
Phonology Circle.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nov 2009 Perceptual distance in Norwegian retroflexion.
The 40th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nov 2009 Perceptual distance in Norwegian retroflexion.
Phonology Circle.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Oct 2009 Perceptual distance & sound change.
GSAS Workshop in Historical Linguistics.
Harvard University.
Apr 2009 Non-local binding in tenseless clauses.
The 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS).
University of Chicago.
Jan 2009 Binding in tenseless domains.
The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
San Francisco.
Nov 2008 The development of voiced labiovelars in Germanic.
The 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.
University of California, Los Angeles.
Sep 2008 The phonetics and phonologization of Verner’s law.
XIIIth International Conference of the Society of Indo-European Studies.
University of Salzburg.
Sep 2008 The phonetics and phonologization of Verner’s law.
GSAS Workshop in Historical Linguistics.
Harvard University.
Sep 2008 Finality constraints in Burmese – history and synchrony.
The 41st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL).
University of London. pdf
Apr 2008 The coda condition and the nature of glides – in Burmese.
Harvard Linguistics Theory Group.
Harvard University.
Mar 2008 Binding in complements of perception verbs.
East Coast Workshop in Syntax (ECO 5).
University of Connecticut.
Mar 2008 Binding in complements of perception verbs.
Ling-lunch.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Dec 2007 Perceptual and articulatory notes on the origin of Germanic geminates.
GSAS Workshop in Historical Linguistics.
Harvard University. pdf
Nov 2006 The historical derivation of Gothic aba ‘husband’.
The 18th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.
University of California, Los Angeles. pdf
Oct 2006 The historical derivation of Gothic aba ‘husband’.
GSAS Workshop in Historical Linguistics.
Harvard University. pdf
Jun 2006 Die phonologische Entwicklung des auslautenden Zischlauts im Germanischen.
Altskandinavistisch-altgermanistische Werkstattgespräche.
University of Vienna.